Early success may lead to megalomania.
These men's megalomania was captured in two masterworks: Orson Welles's film "Citizen Kane" and Evelyn Waugh's novel "Scoop".
It seems that there is something advantageous in the megalomania that is his defining lifelong trait.
But it is fairer to think of him as just a moderately violent thug with a touch of megalomania, whose goons club rivals, who closes newspapers, harasses judges and bans public meetings.
If it can cure nothing else, it can cure man of megalomania.
Taxpayers bear the cost of guaranteeing this fruit of megalomania.